Internal Affairs points out that a civil guard obtained data from police bases on an ex-consul for Villarejo

The retired commissioner would have spied on Xavier Vinyals on behalf of a businessman with whom he had a dispute

MADRID, 16 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A report from the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police reveals that a Civil Guard agent accessed police bases to offer in 2016 to the environment of the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo information about the former Latvian consul in Barcelona and president of the Platform Pro Selections Catalans Xavier Vinyals.

"This Unit identifies the user and the template as corresponding to a Civil Guard official, who made the inquiries through the SES Compensation Center system," says the Internal Affairs official to which Europa Press has had access.

This 14-page report has been sent to the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón, in charge of investigating the 'Villarejo case', within the framework of separate piece number 33, which deals with the alleged espionage of Vinyals. Specifically, it investigates the assignment that a supposed enemy of the ex-consul entrusted to Villarejo and his company, CENYT, to use information in some of the legal cases in which he was immersed.

The investigations revolve around an order of about 15,000 euros that, allegedly, a businessman, Daniel Castells, paid Villarejo, his partner Rafael Redondo and a Catalan police officer in second activity, Antonio Giménez Raso, to investigate the private affairs of Vinyals and use this information against you.

According to the official letter, the magistrate wanted Internal Affairs to tell him the authorship of the inquiries in police files that had ended in documents seized from Villarejo when his home was searched in 2017. Specifically, the instructor refers to the 'VIÑALS. docx' and '18-04-2016 VIÑALS.docx'.

The chief inspector in charge of such inquiries indicates that the second of the files was sent by email by Antonio Giménez to Rafael Redondo on April 18, 2016, and contained personal data --DNI, possible addresses and even the company's CIF. From Energies Internacional'-- both Xavier Vinyals and his father Ramón Vinyals.

And he points out that, after studying possible queries in police databases between March 18 and April 18, 2016, no results were obtained.

Regarding the other file, 'VIÑALS.docx', the inspector emphasizes in her report that it was also sent by Giménez to Redondo, but a couple of months later, specifically, on June 10, 2016.

In this case, Internal Affairs explains that the amount of data is greater because it includes "information on documentation, vehicles, lodgings --hotel stays-- and flights of both Ramón Vinyals and Xavier Vinyals." It adds that references are also made "to the register, real estate property or the lack of records."

In the audit of possible consultations in police bases to obtain this data, the inspector points out that they found up to seven positive results. Four of them were carried out on May 2, 2016 between 7:26 a.m. and 7:38 a.m., and in them, data was sought first from Ramón Vinyals and then from his son Xavier, from whom the police file was also accessed.

Internal Affairs adds that the other three searches were made on May 2, 2016 at 10:02 a.m. from the El Prat de Llobregat airport staff, and that only Xavier Vinyals' passport was consulted.

Returning to the first four consultations, the official letter states that the National Police Information and Communications Unit is contacted to shed light on the person who carried them out, and that the answer is that it was "an official of the Civil Guard to through the SES Clearinghouse system".

The official letter, which entered the National Court on January 9, indicates that after consulting the police files of Ramón Vinyals they have been able to verify that both the motorcycle and the hostels and a trip he made to Singapore that appear in the file held by Villarejo are also included in their bases. As for Xavier Vinyals, he points out that the vehicles and flights outlined in the former commissioner's document also appear in police bases. THE VINYALS FIGURE

It should be remembered that Vinyals was one of those arrested in October 2020 in the 'Voloh' operation, for the alleged diversion of funds to the independence movement that is being investigated in the Central Investigating Court Number 1 of Barcelona, ​​together with the former ERC minister Xavier Vendrell and the former leader of CDC and president of Aguas de Catalunya, David Madí.

The former Latvian consul in Barcelona testified before the investigating judge in the Villarejo case last July and gave details about the alleged surveillance to which he was subjected as part of the 'Goblin project'.

According to the court report, Villarejo's client in this case would have been one of the defendants, Daniel Castells, to find "something" from Ramón Vinyals and/or his son Xavier that would give him a certain advantage when resolving the conflict they had. for a procedure where the Vinyals accused Castells of misappropriation and for which the Prosecutor's Office asked him for jail and million-dollar compensation.

The work would have been carried out through a company linked to Giménez Raso, "a sort of subsidiary of the CENYT Group", the Villarejo company. Castells would have paid 15,000 euros for it.

They were also summoned to testify before the judge, but as investigated, Rafael Redondo and Castells themselves and Giménez Raso, but according to sources consulted by Europa Press, all of them accepted their right not to testify.